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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207472276" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Tony Arcieri <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207472276">(Aug 19 2020 at 23:11)</a>:</h4>
<p>Regarding <a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-governance/issues/12">https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-governance/issues/12</a> and other domain WG applications...</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207472295" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Tony Arcieri <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207472295">(Aug 19 2020 at 23:11)</a>:</h4>
<p>I've been wondering if it might be helpful to have something more like W3C Interest Groups</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207472418" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Tony Arcieri <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207472418">(Aug 19 2020 at 23:13)</a>:</h4>
<p>that is, an officially recognized community where people discuss Rust in conjunction with a particular domain (and in that regard, with discussions adjacent to WGs e.g. on Zulip and/or Discord, subject to Rust CoC/moderation rules),</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207472434" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Tony Arcieri <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207472434">(Aug 19 2020 at 23:13)</a>:</h4>
<p>...but without any sort of official role in the project or deliverables. just a focal point for discussion</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207476793" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Manish Goregaokar <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207476793">(Aug 20 2020 at 00:16)</a>:</h4>
<p>We've been discussing that kind of thing in the gov WG as "community groups", yes, and it's likely what we'll end up doing i think</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207481177" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Lokathor <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207481177">(Aug 20 2020 at 01:43)</a>:</h4>
<p>This sort of thing already exists to an extent within the Rust Community Discord and also the Rust Gamedev Discord.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207481244" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Lokathor <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207481244">(Aug 20 2020 at 01:45)</a>:</h4>
<p>There's also, for example, a thing called the "Rust Windows WG", which is not officially recognized by the rust project yet, but which is lead by the maintainer of <code>winapi</code>, so no other potential WG for Rust on Windows can really claim legitimacy against that.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207481406" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Lokathor <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207481406">(Aug 20 2020 at 01:49)</a>:</h4>
<p>Also there's github groups for <code>rust-console</code>, <code>rust-tutorials</code>, <code>rust-retro</code>, and probably many more I don't know about.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207486159" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Tony Arcieri <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207486159">(Aug 20 2020 at 03:49)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="224471">@Lokathor</span> I'm on the relevant Discord / Slack channels, but they're all kind of fragmented and undirected</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207486211" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Tony Arcieri <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207486211">(Aug 20 2020 at 03:50)</a>:</h4>
<p>as in, decent ad hoc discussion, but mostly of the "how do I do x?" "you can try y" and that's the end of the discussion</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207486357" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Lokathor <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207486357">(Aug 20 2020 at 03:54)</a>:</h4>
<p>What are you imagining instead? I'm not familiar with W3C stuff so I don't know what else you intend.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207510800" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207510800">(Aug 20 2020 at 11:06)</a>:</h4>
<p>Having taken some time away from this, I have come back to feeling that this makes sense --</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207510813" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207510813">(Aug 20 2020 at 11:06)</a>:</h4>
<p>one thing I noticed btw is that the Swift project seems to leverage <em>categories</em> much more on their Discourse instance than we do</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207510840" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> nikomatsakis <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207510840">(Aug 20 2020 at 11:07)</a>:</h4>
<p>it might be nice e.g. to have sections in the <code>users.rust-lang.org</code> for example with more distinct categories</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207522628" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Tony Arcieri <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207522628">(Aug 20 2020 at 13:35)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="224471">@Lokathor</span> something a bit more organized, where there's a GitHub perhaps, linking to various communication channels, and potentially even things like regular meetings where people might present a project they're working on or something to that effect</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207523108" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Lokathor <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207523108">(Aug 20 2020 at 13:40)</a>:</h4>
<p>That does sound neat.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207523224" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Lokathor <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207523224">(Aug 20 2020 at 13:42)</a>:</h4>
<p>Sounds like the "awesome gbdev" stuff, maybe</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207523366" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Lokathor <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207523366">(Aug 20 2020 at 13:43)</a>:</h4>
<p>And that's essentially what the gamedev-wg has become, I suppose</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/217588-project%20leads%20%28public%29/topic/Rust%20Interest%20Groups/near/207530755" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> DPC <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/217588-project-leads-(public)/topic/Rust.20Interest.20Groups.html#207530755">(Aug 20 2020 at 14:50)</a>:</h4>
<p>We also have the ÄroRust unofficial working group for promoting rust in the aerospace industry.</p>



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